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Thu, 13 Apr 2017 08:06:21 +0000http://thomasrothberghofer.wordpress.com/?p=1065#comment-7272Thanks. I did not know about Pinter’s two houses. I certainly see the appeal. We always thought having an adjacent flat as an office would be great.

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Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:07:41 +0000http://thomasrothberghofer.wordpress.com/?p=1065#comment-7271Fascinating blog. Thomas Edison said that ‘genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration’. I would suggest that creative writing is 1% inspiration, 99% organization. I totally agree with the need to have a creative bubble. Some use time to principally define this bubble while others use physical location.

Nevil Shute used to try and define his creative bubble using time. Shute was a popular British novelist during the 1940s and 50s. Originally an engineer by profession, in many ways he treated a book as a project which had to be managed using engineering project management techniques. While a novel was in preparation, he would therefore sit in his office at home from 9.30 until 13.30 seven days a week, with one Sunday a month off to attend church.

When he was writing, Shute typed his manuscripts out directly rather than writing them by hand first. After he had planned a story he could generally write around 1,000 words a sitting, with a novel taking typically nine months to complete. Once a draft manuscript was finished, the first chapter would then be rewritten, often a number of times. Using such a strict routine, he averaged a novel a year for much of his life. His office at home was his creative bubble and once he entered it, he did not expect to be disturbed.

For some working at home can be difficult to adapt to, even if you have your own office. In such cases some used a more a dramatic change in physical location rather than time to define their creative bubble. The playwright Harold Pinter owned two houses with adjacent gardens. One house was the home for him and his wife (the biographer Antonia Fraser), while the other was his office. When inspiration struck he would leave his home cross the back garden and enter the adjoining house to work – staying there as long as the period of inspiration lasted.